Sir Richard Francis Burton személy

Nigel Barley: Egy zöldfülű antropológus kalandjai
Philip José Farmer: To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Mark Hodder: The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
Mark Hodder: Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon
Mark Hodder: The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi
Philip José Farmer: The Dark Design
Mark Hodder: The Return of the Discontinued Man
Mark Hodder: The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats
Thomas Wright: The Life of Sir Richard Burton

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Mindenki nagyon gorombán nyilatkozott Fernando Póról és a bubikról. A britek megvetették, mint olyan helyet, „ahol az ember késő délután is nagy valószínűséggel találkozhat egy rendetlen spanyol tisztviselővel, aki még mindig pizsamában van"; élvezettel időztek el a bűzös forróság részleteinél és a számos betegségnél, amelyeknek ez a terület a melegágya volt. A 19. századi német felfedezők egyszerűen degeneráltaknak tartották a bennszülötteket. Mary Kingsley azt mondta a szigetről, hogy egy nagy kupac szénnél többet nem tartogat a világnak. Richard Burton pedig mindenkit ámulatba ejtett azzal, hogy odament, és életben is maradt.

1. fejezet

Nigel Barley: Egy zöldfülű antropológus kalandjai Feljegyzések a sárkunyhóból

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„If there’s but one lesson I’ve learned, it is that a man is good or evil on his own account. He might employ his religion to justify his actions but, if that religion weren’t there, he’d find something else to excuse his behaviour.”

Chapter 10: Fighting on Rooftops and Plotting in Catacombs

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“All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
his little bit the whole to own.”

Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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He said he found „four great Protestant Sommites:
(1) St. Paul, who protested against St. Peter's Hebraism;
(2) Mohammed, who protested against the perversions of Christianity;
(3) Luther, who protested against the rule of the Pope;
(4) Sir Richard Burton, who protested against the whole business.”

145. Burton's Religion.

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"If I awake in a moment in Africa, having feverishly hallucinated everything that has occurred these past weeks, only then will life make any sort of sense.”

Second Part, Chapter 17: The Devil Himself

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Burton turned up his collar and looked at the darkening sky. “These short winter days make me long for Africa, Algy. Do you think this horrible climate is responsible for the British imperative for expansion? Is our empire built upon drizzle and chill?”

Chapter 6 - The Second Experiment

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Sir Richard Burton, the famous traveller, linguist, and anthropologist — „the Arabian Knight” — „the last of the demi-gods” — has been very generally regarded as the most picturesque figure of his time, and one of the most heroic and illustrious men that „this blessed plot… this England,” this mother of heroes every produced.

(első mondat)

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“Woman have the curiosity of cats,” Burton said, and he chuckled. “Whereas men are as curious as monkeys.”
“What? What does that mean?”
“I don’t know, but it sounds deep. I’ll think up an explanation later.”

Chapter 24

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Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
Sir Richard Francis Burton

Chapter 9

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Burton smacked his right fist into his left palm. “Yes! That's exactly it! My decisions were made according to context. But have I ever properly understood it? Since the advent of Spring Heeled Jack, I feel like I've not had a firm grip on events at all. It's all slipped away from me. It feels to me as though things that should have occurred over a long stretch of history are all piling up at once"

Chapter 9: The Parting of Ways

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